...and to add to that, one of the things that's most fucking toxic about Tumblr is that literally anyone can position themselves as an expert by affecting the right attitude and responding to a lot of asks, and due to the nature of how reblogging works, they aren't subject to the informal peer review that tended to keep checks and balances on LJ if someone was running around giving terrible advice. And this is probably well-known by now, but people can also send themselves anonymous asks, placing themselves in a position where it appears like people are flocking to them to ask questions in order to get their "expert opinion" on various issues. So they can actually create a reputation for themselves as a Community Expert In Good Standing when they were faking it before.

It's just a very, very, very bad platform for any kind of serious dialogue, especially for young and vulnerable people who are questioning their identities and want serious information about what they think they might be. It somehow manages to aggregate all the worst features of Usenet and Livejournal without any of the things that were good about them.

(Anyone legitimately plagued by suspicious infestations of anonymice might find these search results helpful.)

-blendy!us